Blogs Home - Tags - reporting homeurn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries122015-03-27T10:08:16-04:00IBM Connections - Blogsurn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-02a98ff3-e03a-4bc2-ab1f-85c6aab91a1d6 consejos de seguridad: eliminar la complejidad del ComplianceInes Calaviai.calavia@es.ibm.com270006W8F9activeComment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikes2014-07-29T06:30:00-04:002014-07-21T07:26:35-04:00<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;">
Cada vez que salta una noticia sobre un error de seguridad entra el p&aacute;nico. Como si de un simulacro se tratara, el departamento de TI inicia el chequeo para comprobar que sus sistemas est&aacute;n a salvo; los auditores corren a confirmarlo y las regulaciones de la industria se apresuran a analizar de las posibles brechas que hayan podido producirse para asegurar que siguen cumpli&eacute;ndose los est&aacute;ndares.</p>
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El departamento de TI debe estar preparado para tratar estas situaciones con rapidez y eficacia dadas las complejidades de la constante evoluci&oacute;n, la sofisticaci&oacute;n de las amenazas, la abundancia de los datos de seguridad para auditar, el cambio constante de las regulaciones y est&aacute;ndares de la industria, el contexto cloud, el mundo m&oacute;vil , BigData o Social Media.</p>
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En el art&iacute;culo de hoy proponemos 6 consejos para minimizar la complejidad y facilitar el <a href="http://securityintelligence.com/top-reasons-why-customers-still-bet-their-business-on-the-mainframe/">cumplimiento de los requisitos</a>.</p>
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1. Reforzar est&aacute;ndares de seguridad y buenas pr&aacute;cticas</h2>
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La mayor&iacute;a de los est&aacute;ndares se basan en &ldquo;buenas pr&aacute;cticas&rdquo; de seguridad: los menores privilegios posibles, separaci&oacute;n de tareas, monitorizaci&oacute;n de usuario, encriptaci&oacute;n de datos, protecci&oacute;n y auditor&iacute;a de los datos de acceso e informaci&oacute;n relevante, etc. Lo m&aacute;s dif&iacute;cil es ejecutar estas pol&iacute;ticas y asegurarse de que no se puedan eludir.</p>
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2. Realizar chequeos frecuentes</h2>
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Revisar los &ldquo;chequeos por defecto&rdquo;, las preferencias y la configuraci&oacute;n de ayuda. Llevar a cabo &ldquo;<em>health checks</em>&rdquo; peri&oacute;dicamente puede marcar la diferencia y facilitar la tarea de los auditores.</p>
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3. Maximizar el sistema de seguridad</h2>
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Una buena pr&aacute;ctica&nbsp; en la ejecuci&oacute;n eficiente de los sistemas de seguridad es mantener actualizaciones de productos existentes y parches para vulnerabilidades; trabajando, por ejemplo, con productos &ldquo;Mission-critical&rdquo; tipo System Z.</p>
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4. Monitorizar y recoger informaci&oacute;n de seguridad necesaria para auditor&iacute;as</h2>
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Para un an&aacute;lisis &oacute;ptimo y que se integre perfectamente en los informes de seguridad de las auditor&iacute;as, una buena idea es utilizar <a href="http://securityintelligence.com/gartner-2014-magic-quadrant-siem-security/">herramientas de <em>loggeo</em></a>. Por ejemplo, crear sistemas de alerta que salten a tiempo real a&uacute;n cuando no est&eacute; en marcha una auditor&iacute;a. Proteger la informaci&oacute;n de cualquier modificaci&oacute;n o eliminaci&oacute;n es un instrumento clave para garantizar la seguridad de los sistemas.</p>
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5. Automatizar el an&aacute;lisis de las auditor&iacute;as para detectar posibles amenazas</h2>
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Con tanta informaci&oacute;n recogida virtualmente en tiempo real, un an&aacute;lisis proactivo y automatizado puede prevenir y detectar gran cantidad de amenazas. Ayudando, de esta forma, a priorizar e identificar situaciones cr&iacute;ticas y optimizar la <a href="http://securityintelligence.com/security-intelligence-big-data-analytics-blurred-vision/">seguridad inteligente</a> de los sistemas.</p>
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6. Utilizar herramientas de <em>reporting</em> flexibles</h2>
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El empleo de las herramientas de <em>reporting</em> adecuadas ayuda a reducir considerablemente la complejidad de las auditor&iacute;as manuales al mismo tiempo que personaliza grandes cantidades de aplicaciones y sistemas existentes. Por ejemplo, a trav&eacute;s de un buen sistema de comandos a tiempo real que reporte los an&aacute;lisis de seguridad y especifique seg&uacute;n par&aacute;metros de la empresa.</p>
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Aunque probablemente estemos lejos de prevenir completamente los ataques de seguridad y evitar <a href="https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?source=swg-WW_Security_Organic&amp;S_PKG=ov25233&amp;S_TACT=102PW2CW&amp;ce=ISM0484&amp;ct=SWG&amp;cmp=IBMSocial&amp;cm=h&amp;cr=Security&amp;ccy=US" target="_blank">auditor&iacute;as&nbsp;para&nbsp;comprobar&nbsp;el&nbsp;cumplimiento&nbsp;de&nbsp;requisitos,</a> s&iacute; podemos simplificar gran cantidad de amenazas. Dentro del complicado contexto en el que trabajamos, con casi un 80 por ciento de aplicaciones y datos en sistemas <a href="http://securityintelligence.com/mainframe-security-50-years/">mainframe</a>, disponer de un eficiente y r&aacute;pido sistema de seguridad inteligente es clave para proteger y defender la empresa.</p>
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Esta es una traducci&oacute;n de <a href="http://securityintelligence.com/6-security-trauma-tips-taking-the-complexity-out-of-compliance/#.U8YqERDCtnE">un art&iacute;culo original</a> de <a href="http://securityintelligence.com/author/anne-lescher/" title="Posts by Anne Lescher">Anne Lescher</a></p>
Cada vez que salta una noticia sobre un error de seguridad entra el p&aacute;nico. Como si de un simulacro se tratara, el departamento de TI inicia el chequeo para comprobar que sus sistemas est&aacute;n a salvo; los auditores corren a confirmarlo y las...00702urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-1d16870d-cbcd-4e81-9342-1590f1525ac8El blog de IBM Software España2015-03-23T06:07:44-04:00urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-e70d1c79-2010-456f-9efa-733cc0ae302fBasel III: Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting -- What's New?Diane ReynoldsDiane.Reynolds@ca.ibm.com270005B1Q0activeComment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikes2013-01-28T17:20:47-05:002013-01-28T17:20:47-05:00<SPAN>
<H4>Basel Committee releases finalized ‘Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting’ document – But what’s it all about? This blog entry discusses the key changes and provides context for them.</H4>
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<P>On January 9, 2013 the Basel Committee published "Principles for Effective Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting – final document." As part of Basel III, these principles are intended to strengthen banks’ risk data aggregation capabilities and internal risk reporting practices, says Basel, and focus in particular on G-SIBs (global systemically important banks).</P><BR>
<P>&nbsp;The Principles cover a range of topics from governance and infrastructure to data aggregation and from risk reporting practices to tools and processes. The implementation of the principles is expected to improve a bank’s risk management efficiency, decision making process as well as strategic planning quality. The guidelines include 14 principles as shown in Figure 1.</P><BR>
<P>This document revises an earlier version issued in June 2012, and includes significant industry-favorable changes based on interim responses. Generally speaking, the guidelines are both less demanding and more specific; with the implementation date unchanged at year-end 2015. </P><BR>
<P>The changes in the final document have further clarified the concepts such as "materiality", "forward looking data" and "timeliness" and provided more specifications on the requirements such as single risk data source and implementation timelines. New guidelines for the use of expert judgment, approximation and trade-offs have been introduced. The responsibilities between different parties in risk management process have also been redefined. </P><BR>
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<H2>So, what are the most significant changes?</H2><BR>
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<LI>Greater discretion has been given to banks with respect to monitoring the accuracy and completeness of risk data, versus data expectations.</LI><BR>
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<DIV>A single authoritative source of risk data is required for each risk type (eg. credit risk, market risk), rather than across all risk types. </DIV></LI><BR>
<LI>Trade-offs among principles may now be accepted only under exceptional circumstances (in response to the banking industry’s concern that the quest to comply with all principles simultaneously may in some circumstances jeopardize compliance with a particular principle).</LI><BR>
<LI>There are increased requirements on the timeliness of a bank’s risk data aggregation capabilities, under both normal and stress/crisis conditions. </LI><BR>
<LI>Risk data no longer has to be reconciled to accounting data, as in most cases the methods used in modeling and recording transactions / values do not equate. </LI><BR>
<LI>New guidelines have been added to enhance controls around the use of expert judgment, particularly around documentation and transparency. </LI><BR></OL>
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<P>(Please see a full list of the changes at the end of this article.)</P><BR>
<H2>What does this tell us?</H2><BR>
<P>The Basel Committee is making efforts to balance steep regulatory requirements with what is feasibly attainable in the day-to-day reality of a bank’s operations. Where compromises have been made, the Basel Committee is careful to stress that reliability of data cannot be compromised (for example with the use of approximations) as risk information must be relied upon to make critical business decisions. It’s not all concessions, though: stricter requirements have been put in place with respect to the timeliness and usefulness of risk information, and despite pressure from the industry to delay implementation timelines, the Basel Committee has not budged. </P><BR>
<P>Overall, we see further evidence in these changes of the shift from risk as a compliance function to risk as a support function for improved performance across the business. And, as we look ahead to 2013, the baseline is that G-SIBs have got to get moving and start investing – if they have not already – in the systems that will keep them on track towards the 2016 deadline.</P><BR>
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<H2>Full List of Changes </H2></DIV><BR>
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<LI>Greater discretion has been given to banks with respect to monitoring the accuracy and completeness of risk data, versus data expectations.</LI><BR>
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<DIV>A single authoritative source of risk data is required for each risk type (eg. credit risk, market risk), rather than across all risk types. </DIV></LI><BR>
<LI>Trade-offs among principles may now be accepted only under exceptional circumstances (in response to the banking industry’s concern that the quest to comply with all principles simultaneously may in some circumstances jeopardize compliance with a particular principle).</LI><BR>
<LI>There are increased requirements on the timeliness of a bank’s risk data aggregation capabilities, under both normal and stress/crisis conditions. </LI><BR>
<LI>Risk data no longer has to be reconciled to accounting data, as in most cases the methods used in modeling and recording transactions / values do not equate. </LI><BR>
<LI>New guidelines have been added to enhance controls around the use of expert judgment, particularly around documentation and transparency. </LI><BR>
<LI><SPAN lang="">A new guideline has been added requiring banks to follow reporting principles on the use of approximations in risk reporting, where precise risk data is not available. </SPAN></LI><BR>
<LI><SPAN lang="">Usefulness has been added as a required principle for risk reporting, reflecting industry comments that risk reports should only provide relevant and condensed information for business decision making, instead of being polluted with insignificant data. </SPAN></LI><BR>
<LI><SPAN lang="">The document clarifies earlier requirements of banks to develop forward-looking reporting capabilities, specifically with respect to stress testing and to provide early warnings of potential breaches of risk limits.</SPAN></LI><BR>
<LI><SPAN lang="">Responsibilities of senior management have changed to align with industry standards, where the bank’s board is required to provide oversight, while senior management must be focused on principles implementation.</SPAN></LI><BR>
<LI><SPAN lang="">Banks are no longer required to build an independent validation unit within internal audit to validate risk data aggregation capabilities and risk reporting practices. Instead they have the flexibility to integrated independent validation activities into other independent review activities within the bank.</SPAN></LI><BR>
<LI><SPAN lang="">Cooperation and information sharing between national and international supervisory authorities are re-emphasized to improve efficiency and avoid duplicated reporting work.</SPAN></LI><BR>
<LI><SPAN lang="">More detailed implementation timelines have been published for G-SIBs, stipulating that the Basel Committee will track G-SIBs’ progress towards complying with the Principles by the 2016 deadline beginning in 2013.</SPAN></LI><BR>
<LI><SPAN lang="">National supervisory authorities are strongly encouraged to apply the Principles to banks identified as D-SIBs (domestic systemically important banks).
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On January 9, 2013 the Basel Committee...124443urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-75b95918-6c88-4478-8054-526e30e1329fBanking2014-07-29T03:47:12-04:00urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-9d383a52-ac03-47b9-9c67-7e18fd5676e9Convergence of Performance Management and Risk Management - Part 2Erwin BoerenERWIN.BOEREN@NL.IBM.COM270002C43Vactive66026d3c-27ae-4181-8b56-440931010f09Comment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikes2012-09-06T14:53:01-04:002012-09-06T14:53:01-04:00<!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><u><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Convergence
of Performance Management and Risk Management - Part 2 </span></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">With
the increase of the Governance, Risk &amp; Compliance maturity level at many of
my clients I see that clients start to realize the benefits of the integration
of GRC activities in their Performance Management cycle. Therefore a follow up
on my previous article around Risk Management and the convergence with
Performance Management. <br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Let
me share some insights on Risk &amp; Performance Management initiatives that keep
clients busy around Europe. The following 4
items came up in the last 3 months.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:navy"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy">Cost control and process performance improvement give us the
opportunity to embed controls in our process. Lessons learned from Six Sigma
and Lean can give us guidance here.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:navy"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy">How do I manage organizational and regulatory change and monitor
the impact on business processes, policies and my risk and control framework? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:navy"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy">Trending topic is emerging risks, am I able to identity risks that
are coming to me over time?&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:navy"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy">Integrated Financial and Risk reporting, an excellent example of
‘Where Performance Management meets Risk Management’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">&nbsp;</span><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Cost control and Process
improvements</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Implementing
and testing controls has become a huge cost for many organizations. That is why
some of my clients are now looking for a way to reduce cost by embedding
controls in their existing business processes. This goes hand in hand with the
global initiative on cost reduction. While optimizing or even re designing core
business processes internal controls are being embedded in the process. What I
see is that the organizations that involve process owners and process
contributors are most successful. This is an initiative that we have seen
before in Lean Six Sigma projects. The only way to optimize processes and to
reduce waste is to involve the process owners. Instead of increasing regulatory
pressure we should seek a solution in this area in my opinion. Business cases
around this have proven to be very successful and savings up to millions of
Euros per year have been achieved.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Regulatory change</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Regulatory
changes are a huge concern of many risk, compliance, legal and audit
professionals. How can we monitor these changes and how can we understand the
impact on our organization? Taking this together with the fact that policy
management is changing from a ‘must do’ once a year to a continuous process
tells us that an integrated approach to Governance, Risk &amp; Compliance is
necessary to drive performance. I come across clients that have a monthly Performance
Report that shows how they derived business objectives from their policies and
how they are performing on a compliance level to these objectives. What risks
did they identify in this process and how will they respond to these risks?
Organizations realize that they need to understand the correlation between
processes, policies, regulations, business objectives, risks and controls and
how they might impact each other. An integrated GRC view is the only way to
face this challenge.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Emerging Risk Modelling</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">One
of the trending topics among customers is Emerging Risks. Can we model risks
that we see coming and can we follow up on risks that are getting closer or
fading away? Analytical Risk modeling is an answer to this question. This also
let you perform risk forecasting with different scenarios. Interesting question
is how the increase of a risk exposure in an operating entity will impact my
group level exposure? Risk Analytics, derived from the Performance Management
area can help us answer these questions. A financial performance management
cycle contains the exact same characteristics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Integrated Financial and
Risk performance reporting</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Financial
and Risk reporting are standard items in today’s Annual Reports, Tax
statements, Management reports and Regulatory reports. The big question is how
do I keep all of this information organized in such a way that I understand the
source of the information, the transformation it has gone through, the owner of
the information and most important when information changes at the last moment
that all information output contains the latest version? No bigger reputational
risk than sending out inconsistent information to stakeholders. Some
organizations saw their share price drop with 25% due to inconsistent external
reporting. One of my clients has implemented a solution that orchestrates all
of these information sources with workflow capabilities and even XBRL output.
From a risk perspective this is a great mitigation of your reputational risk
and an excellent example of ‘Where Performance Management meets Risk Management’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Blog
post by Erwin Boeren</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;
mso-bidi-language:HE">Senior Governance, Risk &amp; Compliance specialist IBM
Europe</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;
mso-bidi-language:HE">Twitter : <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/erwinboeren"><span style="color:navy">https://twitter.com/#!/erwinboeren</span></a></span></p>
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the increase of the Governance, Risk &amp; Compliance maturity level at many of
my clients I see that clients start to realize the benefits of the integration
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I’m really excited about this year’s Business Analytics Forum at Information On Demand (Oct. 21-25, Las Vegas) . We’ve assembled a strong set of...007075urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-6de57278-dfe4-4f99-b549-91c00ef0ba45AnalyticsZone Blog2015-03-30T03:21:19-04:00urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-3328e2f7-859f-4e3a-bb0f-77400bae1d70AE Smith Cuts Reporting TimeAdrian Kotzenakotzen@au1.ibm.com270005BEASactiveComment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikes2012-05-16T01:00:00-04:002012-05-16T02:33:41-04:00
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<p>AE Smith, the largest privately-owned mechanical services contractor in Australia, integrates budgeting, forecasting and reporting and cuts reporting time by 50 percent with the help of IBM Cognos Express and Decision Resources, an IBM Business Partner.</p>
<p>AE Smith required a reporting solution that would provide comprehensive information quickly and in useful formats for managers to make good business decisions.</p>
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AE Smith, the largest privately-owned mechanical services contractor in Australia, integrates budgeting, forecasting and reporting and cuts reporting time by 50 percent with the help of IBM Cognos Express and Decision Resources, an IBM Business Partner.
AE...002154urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-789e8244-2f53-4645-bfaf-3bd18730ff78IBM Business Insight blog - Australia & New Zealand2015-03-24T22:52:23-04:00urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-37446d56-4e73-4899-9a2c-a51b7777f9a2Risk Reporting and Dashboarding now available on your desktop!Erwin BoerenERWIN.BOEREN@NL.IBM.COM270002C43Vactive66026d3c-27ae-4181-8b56-440931010f09Comment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikes2012-03-07T10:34:10-05:002012-03-15T14:45:57-04:00<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"></B></P>
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<P></P></FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>With the brand-new IBM Cognos Insight you can now connect to your IBM OpenPages environment from your desktop. You always have that moment that you need the information on a report but just a bit different than the standard report provides to you. The solution...102652urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-de4f6e84-c865-4a7b-9774-bb387c2d5eabGovernance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)2013-08-02T10:47:51-04:00urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-f938fbd5-d30e-4510-a139-541fa74ca13bGovernance. Risk and compliance on the iPadErwin BoerenERWIN.BOEREN@NL.IBM.COM270002C43Vactive66026d3c-27ae-4181-8b56-440931010f09Comment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikes2011-11-11T08:29:19-05:002011-12-07T16:15:51-05:00<p>
With Cognos 10.1.1 released you must have noticed the ability of having your reports and dashboards on mobile devices like iPad and iPhone.</p><div>&nbsp;</div><p>With these mobile capabilities CROs (Chief Risk Officers) will now have the ability to measure risk from their mobile devices. For volatile risk areas like Market and Credit Risk this can make a huge difference.</p><div>&nbsp;</div><br>
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</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;IBM developed a risk monitoring system for CROs where one single version of the truth is provided of different risk areas like Credit Risk, Market Risk, Counterparty Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, Basel II, Solvency II and Operational Risk. Not only does a CRO have the ability to monitor all these risk areas but he can also monitor the correlation between those risk areas and he is able to respond immediately to changes. Responses can immediately be formulated in the integrated social media platform.</div><div>&nbsp; <br></div>
<p>One version of the truth and guaranteed quality of your data is simple to say but how do you govern this? This is where IBMs investment in data models starts to pay off. Since decades IBM develops and maintains data models for financial services including out of the box technical and business definitions. This enables organizations to come to one definition of risk over the entire organization. Taking definitions centrally will add value in the process of taking down the silod approach we spoke about in earlier articles. It will also help you in the accountability process of the business. Finally it is the business that should own the business definitions.</p>
<div>&nbsp;</div><p>As discussed in our previous published blog (The convergence of GRC and Performance Management) Business Analytics capabilities like risk forecasting, risk adjusted profitability calculations, scenario planning and predictive risk analysis are part of this risk monitoring system called FIRM (Finance Integrated Risk Management). </p><div>&nbsp;</div>
<p>The new regulation for Insurance companies, Solvency II requires organizations to plan their risk assessments and capital requirements 2 to 5 years ahead and to reflect impact on financial positions when a risk materializes. All this means that an integrated approach to risk management is a must. In next blogs we will go deeper into the Solvency II regulation.
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With Cognos 10.1.1 released you must have noticed the ability of having your reports and dashboards on mobile devices like iPad and iPhone. &nbsp; With these mobile capabilities CROs (Chief Risk Officers) will now have the ability to measure risk from their...001326urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-de4f6e84-c865-4a7b-9774-bb387c2d5eabGovernance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)2013-08-02T10:47:51-04:00urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-681a7126-9d5e-458c-b5f1-2114f192e150Application Lifecycle Management: Creating Smarter SoftwareWes Simondsyokist@adelphia.net120000EFD6activebcde08b8-816c-42a8-aa37-5f1ce02470a9Comment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikes2011-09-27T11:04:23-04:002011-09-29T16:46:44-04:00<div>Quite a few of today's buzzwords don't mean anything definite either to the people who are listening or talking. If 'Application Lifecycle Management' (ALM) seems to you to fall into this group, though, I would argue it shouldn't. In fact, I bet I could get across the gist of it in two sentences:
</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Application development typically involves a series of stages. So if you want applications to be as bug-free and feature-complete as possible, you need to manage each of those stages as well as you possibly can.<br>&nbsp;<br>That wasn't so bad, now, was it? <br>&nbsp;<br>I could, admittedly, elaborate a bit more. Software developers generally also want to minimize their costs and risks and accelerate their development cycles. So these concerns play a major part in ALM theory and solutions as well.<br>&nbsp;<br>Furthermore, the more complex applications become -- the more lines of code, the more development groups, the more elaborate the specifications, etc. -- the more important a governed approach to ALM gets. And the stronger the case for a best-in-class, integrated, ALM-focused suite of development solutions becomes.<br>&nbsp;<br>To really spotlight the increasing importance of ALM, we might pick a case in which getting the software right is literally a matter of life-and-death -- a case in which 'crash' might imply a lot more than IT services. Such cases certainly exist.<br>&nbsp;<br><b>The lower the margin of acceptable error, the stronger the case for ALM</b><br>One excellent example: <a href="http://invensys.com/en/business/ir.aspx">Invensys Rail</a>, a leading provider of trackside and on-board signaling systems used by railway operators in Spain and Portugal. <br>&nbsp;<br>Some of the challenges this organization's software development team face include:<br>&nbsp;<br>
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<li>Coordination of train movements with 100 percent accuracy and reliability</li>
<li>Trains that zip along at near 200 miles per hour</li>
<li>A specification called the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) that requires continuous compliance despite its frequent changes</li>
<li>More than a dozen different railway operators, simultaneously operating </li>
<li>Hundreds of trains in two different countries</li></ul>&nbsp;<br>The margin for error in orchestrating this complex task is, needless to say, virtually zero. Let's just say that software development mistakes of the kind that frequently occur in other industries would generate global headlines in this particular case.<br>&nbsp;<br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Five optimized stages of development from one integrated ALM solution</span><br>Such a situation clearly demands a governed, efficient, and consistent approach to <a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/category/SW860">ALM</a>. Toward that end, Invensys Rail has turned to one primary solution provider for end-to-end lifecycle management.<br>&nbsp;<br>'We needed an integrated solution to optimize our processes and procedures and provide our developers with the agility they need to respond to changes,' said Francisco Lozano, ERTMS Program Manager. 'This is what IBM Rational provided, from the requirements with DOORS to the code with Rhapsody.'<br>&nbsp;<br>Notice the 'from' and 'to' parts of that last sentence. What Mr. Lozano means is that for each of the stages in the application lifecycle, <a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/workbench/systems/">the IBM Rational® solution</a> delivers all the necessary capabilities needed to drive a better outcome -- even given Invensys Rail's constantly changing codebase of more than one million lines.<br>&nbsp;<br><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Requirements management</span><br>This earliest stage is, for obvious reasons, one of the most critical. The complete set of requirements for the application must be established; that's no simple task, because the requirements for today's largest and most complex applications typically stem from many, many sources and are expressed in many forms (or data formats). Fail ing to aggregate and centralize them all will certainly lead to trouble down the road -- or rail, as the case may be -- that might, in a worst-case scenario, turn out to be literally catastrophic.<br>&nbsp;<br>Also important in the requirements management stage is that as new requirements come in, they are transmitted to other elements of the software portfolio appropriately, in order to support the new goals they were designed to achieve. This flow of information must be managed very carefully.<br>&nbsp;<br>'<a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/doors/">IBM Rational DOORS®</a> helps ensure that the delivered product meets Invensys Rail's and its clients' needs,' said Scott McKorkle, Senior Manager for IBM Rational. 'It enhances the quality of safety-critical systems by increasing the visibility of business objectives, customer needs, technical specifications and regulations.'<br>&nbsp;<br><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Configuration and change management</span><br>Given a set of requirements, the next two phases -- configuration and change management -- come into play. Code can't actually be generated yet, but based on the requirements, it can be designed, using standardized libraries and visualization tools.<br>&nbsp;<br>Many architectural questions must be asked and answered at this point to assess and diminish risk. These questions might include: How are new requirements going to be implemented? What kind of conflicts might be created? What is the impact on the overall system going to be as a result? What are the direct and indirect consequences to the software and its utilization likely to be?<br>&nbsp;<br>Here, too, ALM tools, working together and often in an automated fashion, can support a governed, risk-managed, collaborative process.<br>&nbsp;<br>Said McKorkle: '<a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/synergy/">IBM Rational Synergy</a> and <a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/change/">Change</a> provide a unifying change, configuration, and software delivery platform, bringing distributed development teams together for the development of complex systems and software. They help ensure that all development processes can be defined, implemented, automated, visualized and thus managed.'<br>&nbsp;<br><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Modeling/code generation</span><br>This next phase is, of course, all about writing the actual code, but there's typically a lot more to the story than that. <br>&nbsp;<br>Consider simulation, for instance; this is often needed to assess how well (or how badly) a given software build will perform under real-world conditions. In a dynamically changing environment, application stresses may fall outside expected boundaries, and it's necessary to ensure high tolerance for that possibility. <br>&nbsp;<br>Interoperability -- certainly critical to Invensys Rail and its diverse base of railway operators -- is also a key factor to verify at this point. So is regulatory compliance.<br>&nbsp;<br>'<a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rhapsody/">IBM Rational Rhapsody</a> transforms complex program and regulatory requirements into deployable systems and software through model-based design, simulation and automated testing,' said McKorkle. 'Its model-driven development approach delivers the critical capabilities that Invensys Rail's systems engineers and software developers need to create demanding embedded and real-time applications.'<br>&nbsp;<br><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Documentation and reporting</span><br>Once applications have been developed, it will still be necessary to document them (to facilitate their use in real-world environments) and generate reports on demand (to illustrate utilization trends, patterns, or emerging issues that might require revision or optimization). <br>&nbsp;<br>These reports, in addition to user/client feedback and other data points, then feed back into the next iteration of the application lifecycle, and the Requirements stage can begin again -- closing the development loop.<br>&nbsp;<br>Thanks in part to its new ALM solution, Invensys Rail has certainly achieved impressive results. For instance, there is now 100 percent synchronization between the design model and resulting source code; changes in either one are instantly reflected in the other. <br>&nbsp;<br>'The Rational solution facilitates this by uniting requirements and change management, model-based systems engineering, and software development into a fully integrated and traceable workflow,' said McKorkle.<br>&nbsp;<br>And as a result, Invensys Rail's estimated time-to-market for new products has fallen by a remarkable 40 percent -- cutting the duration of the development cycle almost in half, and putting the company in a much stronger competitive position. <br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Additional Information</span><br>&nbsp;<br><a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/category/SW860" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Take a closer look at the products that can help you achieve and improve ALM</a><br>&nbsp;<br><a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/workbench/systems/" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Discover an integrated solution for product and systems lifecycle management</a><br>&nbsp;<br><a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/info/dimetronic/" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Get details on how Invensys Rail Dimetronic makes trains run fast and safe</a><br>&nbsp;<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/IBMRational#p/u/6/ptYLnxX5pA4" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Video: See how IBM Rational software keeps things on track for Invesys Dimetronic Rail</a><br>&nbsp;<br>
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<div><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">About the author</span><br><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Guest blogger Wes Simonds worked in IT for seven years before becoming a technology writer on topics including virtualization, cloud computing and service management. He lives in sunny Austin, Texas and believes Mexican food should always be served with queso.</span><br></div></div></div>
Quite a few of today's buzzwords don't mean anything definite either to the people who are listening or talking. If 'Application Lifecycle Management' (ALM) seems to you to fall into this group, though, I would argue it shouldn't. In fact, I bet I could get...003403urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-97050e2c-bec8-4274-a3ee-4432f0a1f4bcIBM Software Community2015-03-18T14:36:56-04:00urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-8eea9468-18a4-4c6f-b700-0473474106ceDimensional Reporting: Determine the Number of Levels in a HierarchyFraser Anderson (IBM)fraser.anderson@ca.ibm.com270001BFAKactiveComment EntriesLikes2011-04-04T14:23:28-04:002011-05-04T09:33:49-04:00<div><span style="font-style: italic;">By Deb McKay, Technical Course Developer, IBM Business Analytics - Cognos Software</span></div><div> </div><div>Dimensional expressions can offer a way to navigate your data in a powerful manner, and extract information about your organization. For example, do you know how many levels exist in your staff organization? Could this information be useful when discussing a re-org? You can use your Staff hierarchy in a dimensional expression to determine this. How many levels are in your Products hierarchy? The value will determine how many levels of detail users will have to drill down to get to the lowest level of detail in reports. In this article, you will explore how to determine the number of levels in a hierarchy using two different techniques, one by using the lowest level in a hierarchy and the other by using the hierarchy in an expression.</div><br>For these examples, I used IBM Cognos Report Studio 10.1, with a dimensional package (Sales and Marketing (cube)) from the IBM Cognos Samples, and created a query calculation for the development of the expressions. This technique also works with Cognos Report Studio 8.4. The step-by-step instructions are provided later in this article, but first, let's take a look at the expressions you will explore.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Method 1: </span>If you know the lowest level of a hierarchy, you can use the following expression, (where <span style="font-weight: bold;">[sales_and_marketing].[Retailers].[Retailers].[Retailer site]</span> is the lowest level in the Retailers hierarchy):<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">ordinal([sales_and_marketing].[Retailers].[Retailers].[Retailer site])+1</span><br><br>Syntax: ordinal ( level )<br>Description: Returns the zero-based ordinal value (distance from the root level) of the specified level. If you take the last level listed in a hierarchy, using the ordinal function, you can determine what distance it is from the root level. If you add 1 (because it is zero-based), then the number of levels in the hierarchy is returned.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Method 2: </span>If you don't know the lowest level, using the hierarchy, you can determine the number of levels in a hierarchy with the following expression, (where <span style="font-weight: bold;">[sales_and_marketing].[Products].[Products] </span>is the hierarchy):<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">ordinal(level(item(tail(hierarchize(members([sales_and_marketing].[Products].[Products]))),0)))+1</span><br><br>Description: Members in the hierarchy are listed in order, then the last item (which should be a member from the lowest level) is returned. Once you know the lowest level, as with the first expression, you can determine the number of levels in that hierarchy.<br><div> </div><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Method 1: </span>Step-by-step instructions to create the number of levels expression where you know the lowest level of the hierarchy:<br>1. Launch <span style="font-weight: bold;">Report Studio</span>, with the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sales and Marketing (cube)</span> package.<br>2. On the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Insertable Objects</span> pane, click the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Toolbox</span> tab, drag a <span style="font-weight: bold;">List</span> to the report layout, and then drag a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Query Calculation</span> to the list.<br>Note that you could use container objects other than a list object, to hold the query calculation.<br>3. In the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Create Calculation</span> dialog box, in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Name</span> box type <span style="font-weight: bold;">Number of Levels - Lowest Level Method</span>, click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Other expression</span>, and then click <span style="font-weight: bold;">OK</span>.<br>4. In the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Expression Definition</span> pane, type <span style="font-weight: bold;">ordinal(</span>.<br>5. In the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Available Components</span> pane, expand the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Retailers</span> dimension, and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Retailers</span> hierarchy.<br>Notice the levels in this hierarchy, and that the lowest level is Retailer site.<br><div> </div><div><a href="https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/connections/blogs/basupportlink/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/201104tech2-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="image" src="/connections/blogs/basupportlink/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/201104tech2-1.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0pt auto; text-align: center; position: relative;"></a> <br></div> <div>6. Drag the lowest level (<b>Retailer site</b>) to the <b>Expression Definition</b> pane, to the end of the current expression.</div>7. To complete the expression, type<b> )+1.</b><br>The expression appears as follows:<br><b>ordinal([sales_and_marketing].[Retailers].[Retailers].[Retailer site])+1</b><br>8. Click <b>Validate</b> to ensure there are no errors, and then click <b>OK</b>.<br>9. On the toolbar, click <b>Run Report</b>, and you will see the number of levels in the hierarchy is 5.<br><div> </div><div><a href="https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/connections/blogs/basupportlink/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/201104tech2-2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="image" src="/connections/blogs/basupportlink/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/201104tech2-2.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0pt auto; text-align: center; position: relative;"></a> <br></div><b>Method 2: </b>Step-by-step instructions to create the number of levels expression using the hierarchy:<br><br>1. Launch <b>Report Studio</b>, with the <b>Sales and Marketing (cube)</b> package.<br>2. On the <b>Insertable Objects</b> pane, click the <b>Toolbox </b>tab, drag a <b>List </b>to the report layout, and then drag a <b>Query Calculation</b> to the list.<br>Note that you could use container objects other than a list object, to hold the query calculation.<br>3. In the <b>Create Calculation</b> dialog box, in the <b>Name</b> box type <b>Number of Levels - Hierarchy Method</b>, click <b>Other expression</b>, and then click <b>OK</b>.<br>4. In the <b>Expression Definition</b> pane, type the following:<br><b>members(</b><br>5. In the <b>Available Components</b> pane, expand the<b> Products</b> dimension, and the <b>Products</b> hierarchy.<br><div>Notice that there are 4 levels in this hierarchy.</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/connections/blogs/basupportlink/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/201104tech2-3.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="image" src="/connections/blogs/basupportlink/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/201104tech2-3.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0pt auto; text-align: center; position: relative;"></a> <br></div>6. Drag the <b>Products</b> hierarchy to the <b>Expression Definition</b> pane, to the end of the current expression.<br>7. To complete the expression, type <b>)</b>. <br>The expression appears as follows: <b>members([sales_and_marketing].[Products].[Products])</b><br>Note: This is a set- based function.<br>8. Click <b>Validate</b> to ensure there are no errors, and then click <b>OK</b>.<br>9. On the toolbar, click <b>Run Report</b>, and you will see the members in the hierarchy.<br><div>A partial listing of the result appears as follows:</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/connections/blogs/basupportlink/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/201104tech2-4.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="image" src="/connections/blogs/basupportlink/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/201104tech2-4.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0pt auto; text-align: center; position: relative;"></a> <br></div>The entire expression could be typed at step 7, but in this demo, you will run the report to understand the output for each of the functions used as the expression is built.<br>10. Close <b>IBM Cognos Viewer</b>, and then in the report layout, double-click the <b>Number of Levels - Hierarchy Method</b> to modify the expression.<br>11. At the beginning of the expression, type <b>hierarchize</b>( and at the end of the expression type <b>)</b>.<br>The expression appears as follows: <b>hierarchize(members([sales_and_marketing].[Products].[Products]))</b><br>12. Validate the expression to ensure there are no errors, and then run the report to see the members listed in their natural order within the hierarchy.<br>13. Close <b>IBM Cognos Viewer,</b> and then in the report layout, double-click the query calculation; at the beginning of the expression type tail( and at the end of the expression type <b>)</b>.<br>The expression appears as follows: <br><b>tail(hierarchize(members([sales_and_marketing].[Products].[Products])))</b><br>14. Validate the expression to ensure there are no errors, and then run the report to see the last element in the hierarchized members (Granite Extreme). <br>Note: You could have used an integer to return a specific number of values, but by default, 1 is used. Also be aware that you have returned a set of one member by using this function.<br>15. Close <b>IBM Cognos Viewer</b>, and then in the report layout, double-click the query calculation; at the beginning of the expression, type <b>item</b>( and at the end of the expression type ,<b>0)</b>.<br>The expression appears as follows: <br><b>item(tail(hierarchize(members([sales_and_marketing].[Products].[Products]))),0)</b><br>16. Validate the expression to ensure there are no errors, and then run the report to see the last member in the set of members returned in the tail expression (Granite Extreme).<br>Note: You only returned the last member in the set by specifying 0, so therefore the result looks the same as the previous results, but here you are returning a member, not a set. This is important to note, as functions can be different for members and sets.<br>17. Close <b>IBM Cognos Viewer</b>, and then in the report layout, double-click the query calculation; at the beginning of the expression, type<b> level</b>( and at the end of the expression type <b>)</b>.<br>The expression appears as follows: <br><b>level(item(tail(hierarchize(members([sales_and_marketing].[Products].[Products]))),0))</b><br>18. Validate the expression to ensure there are no errors, and then run the report to see the level of the member. The result is a list of all members at the level of Granite Extreme. You need the level in order to use the next function, ordinal().<br>19. Close <b>IBM Cognos Viewer</b>, and then in the report layout, double-click the query calculation; at the beginning of the expression, type <b>ordinal</b>( and at the end of the expression type<b> )+1</b>.<br>The expression appears as follows: <br><b>ordinal(level(item(tail(hierarchize(members([sales_and_marketing].[Products].[Products]))),0)))+1</b><br>20. Validate the expression to ensure there are no errors, and then run the report to see the distance from the last level to the root level in the hierarchy. Because this value is zero-based, you added 1 to the expression, to return the number of levels in the hierarchy.<br>The results match the number of levels that you saw in the expanded<b> Products</b> hierarchy in Step 5: there are 4 levels in the hierarchy.<br><div><a href="https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/connections/blogs/basupportlink/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/201104tech2-5.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="image" src="/connections/blogs/basupportlink/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/201104tech2-5.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0pt auto; text-align: center; position: relative;"></a> <br></div>21. Use this expression to determine the number of levels in any hierarchy, by replacing <b>[sales_and_marketing].[Products].[Products]</b> with another hierarchy in your data structure. Try this by using the <b>[sales_and_marketing].[Retailers].[Retailers]</b> hierarchy in the expression, and ensuring the result matches the result from method 1, which was explored earlier in this article.<br><br><div>To learn more about the power of dimensional functions, consider taking the IBM Cognos Report Studio: Author Reports with Multidimensional Data (V10.1) two day training course. 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By Deb McKay, Technical Course Developer, IBM Business Analytics - Cognos Software Dimensional expressions can offer a way to navigate your data in a powerful manner, and extract information about your organization. For example, do you know how many levels...047974urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-1b1a3424-3044-49d1-8854-94e7fd261939IBM Analytics Supportlink2015-03-26T10:20:46-04:00urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-ced44522-aada-42c0-8c08-627eebb3efbfBack to BI Basics Part 2: ReportingDelaney Turnerdelaney.turner@ca.ibm.com270002T14MactiveComment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikes2010-08-18T13:15:43-04:002010-08-18T13:20:57-04:00<i>In last week's <a href="https://www-950.ibm.com/blogs/performanceperspectives/entry/my_weekend_kpis15?lang=en_us">“Back to Basics” entry</a>, we looked at some of the key features that make IBM Cognos BI a great foundation to help optimize your business. We started with an overview of IBM Cognos 8 BI. This week, we look at how <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/products/cognos-8-business-intelligence/reporting.html?soc=blog">the reporting capability</a></i><i> with IBM Cognos 8 BI can benefit every kind of user — from simple report consumers to professional authors and developers.<br /></i><b><br /></b><a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/images/screenshots/c8bi-reporting-screenshot1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="image" src="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/images/screenshots/c8bi-reporting-screenshot1.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt 1em; float: right; position: relative;" /></a> <b>What is a report?</b><br /><br />A report represents facts conveying important information to the people consuming them. And there are as many kinds of reports as there are people who consume them.<br /><br />To an executive, it's often a high-level view of key performance indicators. For a manager, a report provides information about vital aspects of the business. It's often a view into profit and loss or important information, such as customer accounts, employees, product lines, and development schedules.<br /><br />To a frontline employee, a report usually provides answers to operational questions such as: <i>How is our production capacity performance?</i> <i>What maintenance remains to be performed? What orders are scheduled for shipment today? </i><br /><br />For most organizations, reporting is first step in a business analytics
journey, as it offers the quickest and simplest way to satisfy users'
immediate needs for information. <br /><br /><b>Why IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting?</b><br /><br />IBM Cognos 8 BI delivers a robust, technologically advanced solution for <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/products/cognos-8-business-intelligence/reporting.html?soc=blog">professional reporting</a>. It enables you to make smarter business decisions by providing a comprehensive set of reporting capabilities and access to the information you need. <br />Reporting with IBM Cognos 8 BI delivers a single, Web-based, solution for all components of the reporting lifecycle:<br /><br /><ul><li><i><b>Self-service reporting</b></i> enables business users to get the information they need quickly and easily without relying on IT.<br /><br /></li><li><i><b>Author once, access anywhere</b></i> enables IT to create a single report that users can access on multiple devices, in 25+ languages, in multiple formats, and in other applications and processes<br /><br /></li><li><b><i>Report lifecycle</i></b> enables collaboration between business and IT by enabling the sharing of queries and reports</li></ul><b><br />Learn More</b><br /><br /><ul><li><a href="http://forms.cognos.com/?elqPURLPage=2293&amp;offid=od_cognos8_reporting&amp;mc=-web_ibm_rn_product">View the IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting Demo</a></li><li><a href="http://forms.cognos.com/?elqPURLPage=2293&amp;offid=wp_reporting_dashboarding&amp;mc=-web_ibm_rn_product">Download our reporting White Paper</a></li></ul>
In last week's “Back to Basics” entry , we looked at some of the key features that make IBM Cognos BI a great foundation to help optimize your business. We started with an overview of IBM Cognos 8 BI. This week, we look at how the reporting capability with...002127urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-59f8a2ad-450c-4b6d-a1ff-25d9523d2af9The Performance Perspectives Blog2013-08-01T13:16:03-04:00urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-492c2fdd-edae-4f3d-a370-69ae88fc5a27Re: My weekend KPIs and business intelligence basicsTiffany Winmantlwinman@us.ibm.com12000065XBactiveComment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikes2010-08-09T12:41:31-04:002010-08-09T12:41:31-04:00<p>In response to: <a href='https://www-950.ibm.com/blogs/performanceperspectives/entry/my_weekend_kpis15'>My weekend KPIs and business intelligence basics</a></p>
I love how you think about KPIs and business intelligence even
while on a bike ride. Or is that rather....you think of bike riding
even while working on KPIs and business intelligence. Either
way...excellent!
In response to: My weekend KPIs and business intelligence basics
I love how you think about KPIs and business intelligence even
while on a bike ride. Or is that rather....you think of bike riding
even while working on KPIs and business intelligence....00786urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-c01548c1-f35b-4c55-b1f7-130ef211b515Tiffany Winman: IBM social media and networking2014-10-11T10:57:16-04:00urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-d774e9da-ce1b-4048-b393-907ff293b38cBusiness intelligence basics and my weekend KPIsDelaney Turnerdelaney.turner@ca.ibm.com270002T14MactiveComment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikes2010-08-09T10:42:31-04:002010-08-11T11:56:01-04:00It's amazing how a few simple data points can change how you perform. And how they can create those &quot;a-ha&quot; moments that turn BI skeptics into true believers.<br /><br />My own &quot;a-ha&quot; moment came with the purchase of a speedometer for my bike. I spent last weekend on the <a href="http://mssociety.ca/en/events/biketour/default.htm">MS Bike Tour</a>. I've done it for the past eight years, but until I bought that little gadget I had no idea where I was or how fast I was going, Each stage was between 15 and 20 km, but without any way to know how far I'd gone, I'd simply go through the stages on gut feel, trying to conserve my energy just in case. It was a workable approach for one or two stages, but not when you're travelling 150 km over two days. <br /><br /><img alt="image" src="https://www-950.ibm.com/blogs/performanceperspectives/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/trip.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt 1em; float: right; position: relative;" />With the speedometer, I knew how far I was from the next check point. I could see
whether I was above or below my average speed and whether I was slacking
off. I learned what I was capable of in terms of my own physical
endurance. Now instead of rolling into the checkpoint a wheezing mess, I cruise in comfortably. None of this would have been possible without this data. <br /><br />My KPIs for the tour are as follows:<br /><br /><ul><li>Total distance (Km): 150</li><li>Avg. speed (Km/Hr): 20.1</li><li>Maximum speed (Km/Hr): 47.6 (it was a really big hill)<br /></li></ul><br />Now, these are the most basic of performance indicators. Still, they provided enough &quot;a-ha&quot; moments to change the way I trained and my own performance when it came time to getting on the bike for for the actual tour.<br /><br /><b>The point is that no matter how simple the data, no matter how small the scope, most BI deployments don't get off the ground without users having a similar &quot;a-ha&quot; moment.</b> Nor will you be able to expand your deployment with additional capabilities if you don't first satisfy your users' immediate needs for basic information.<br /><br />So, with that in mind, I'd like to introduce a new series called <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">&quot;Back to BI Basics&quot;</span> to look at some of
the key features that make <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/products/cognos-8-business-intelligence/index.html?soc=blog">IBM Cognos business intelligence</a> a great foundation to help optimize your business – including today's overview of IBM Cognos 8 BI, a feature on <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/products/cognos-8-business-intelligence/reporting.html?soc=blog">BI reporting</a> and later, a look at <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/products/cognos-8-business-intelligence/dashboards.html?soc=blog">IBM Cognos BI Dashboards</a>. <br /><br />First let’s take a look at what exactly is Business
Intelligence. <br /><b><br /></b><b>What is Business Intelligence? </b><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence">According to Wikipedia</a>, “Business Intelligence (or BI) refers to computer-based techniques used in spotting, digging-out, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments or associated costs and incomes.”<br />Simply put, Business intelligence connects people with information in an easy-to-use way so they can make better decisions. <br /><br />A lot of things we purchase come with many available
“extras” – upgrades, add-ons, and options. We can get a deluxe model. We
can supersize it. Most likely, there is an “app for that.” But none of
these apps, add-ons, and upgrades makes a difference if you don’t have a
good product to start with. You need a strong basic foundation in
order for any kind of add-on to be beneficial. This is true with
Business Intelligence software. Without a great basic BI product none of
the extras are going make a difference. <br /><br />With BI software you can:<br /><br /><ul><li>Set targets, see results and understand what drives the numbers.</li><li>Identify trends that may be benefits or threats.</li><li>Take action with a common context for decision-making across every department. </li><li>Identify and analyze opportunities and trends. </li></ul><br /><a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/products/cognos-8-business-intelligence/demo.html?mc=-web" target="_blank"><img alt="image" src="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/images/screenshots/od_cognos8-screenshot-thumb.gif" style="display: block; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt 1em; float: right; position: relative;" /></a> <b>Why IBM Cognos BI? </b><br /><br /><a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/products/cognos-8-business-intelligence/capabilities.html?soc=blog">IBM Cognos 8 BI</a> helps everyone make more informed, faster and more aligned business decisions, based on a complete, consistent view of trusted business information.<br /><br /><i><b>IBM Cognos BI:</b></i><br /><br /><ul><li>Delivers trusted information for a single version of the truth.</li><li>Lets you work with information the way you want—<a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/products/cognos-8-business-intelligence/reporting.html?soc=blog">reports</a>, <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/products/cognos-8-business-intelligence/dashboards.html?soc=blog">dashboards</a>, <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/products/cognos-8-business-intelligence/scorecarding.html?soc=blog">scorecards</a>.</li><li>Provides immediate and simple understanding of the key factors driving the business so that executives can effectively drive organizational execution and achieve their strategic objectives.</li><li>Ensures managers can actually trust the numbers they're looking at and understand their business with reports that are easier to access and interpret than ever before.</li><li>Gives business users quick access to the reports that are important to them.</li><li>Allows Business analysts to quickly and easily spot trends, isolate issues, quickly investigating the underlying details and drill into increasing levels of detail.</li></ul><br />For more information on how <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/products/cognos-8-business-intelligence/index.html?soc=blog">IBM Cognos 8 BI</a> allows everyone across the organization to make more informed, faster and more aligned decisions, check out the <a href="http://forms.cognos.com/?elqPURLPage=2293&amp;offid=od_cognos8&amp;mc=-web_ibm_products">IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Demo</a>. See how IBM Cognos 8 BI is designed to give business users the access to accurate information and interactivity they need to drive business performance.<br /><br />And finally: Speaking of gadgets, the video below wouldn't have been possible without my new flip cam, but that's another story.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9Xr5MKskX2M&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9Xr5MKskX2M&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" /></object>
It's amazing how a few simple data points can change how you perform. And how they can create those &quot;a-ha&quot; moments that turn BI skeptics into true believers. My own &quot;a-ha&quot; moment came with the purchase of a speedometer for my bike. I spent...102888urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-59f8a2ad-450c-4b6d-a1ff-25d9523d2af9The Performance Perspectives Blog2013-08-01T13:16:03-04:00